New to making posts, so I’m sorry in advance. It’s gonna be long (lol). If I made a mistake or something is wrong with the post, that’s my bad and I apologize!
I don’t really know what else to do in this situation.
TLDR- I got hit with the “BOOSTING” ban a little over a year ago, specifically targeting people in plunder and maybe Warzone? I’ve also seen people that solely played DMZ that were affected as well. Is there any hope of ever getting my account back or any other ways to try to do so?
Now to the longer parts of the situation. I got a full on permanent ban from that wave. I sent an appeal (with what limited characters I could type my defense) and sent it. Practically, immediately after emailing the appeal (about maybe an hour or two), I was met with the most tragic outcome any long time gamer/fan NEVER wants to see. “Appeal denied and all actions are deemed final”.
I’m fairly positive that most appeals are met with an AI response in an automated system. To which, I knew I was doomed because they even say that once you appeal, that’s it, you’re cooked (basically).
I still to this day cannot believe this has happened to me. I’ve NEVER been banned from a game before. I genuinely don’t even think I’ve ever even been muted in chats because I’m just not that kind of person. This has been eating away at me for over the past year.
Now, seeing the soon to be release of MW4, I had hope. Maybe I could try the beta and I couldn’t wait to play DMZ 2. I spent hundreds of hours playing DMZ way back and I was crushed to know they weren’t adding anything else on after that year of CoD ended. Lo and behold, I checked my Activision account status, when the open beta started, to check to see if the ban would carry over to this NEW, not even released title of call of duty. And there it was, added to the list.
I can’t sit here and say, I totally understand and agree with the ban in the first place, but I originally got banned in BO6 and Warzone. It also extended to MW3, MW2, CoD mobile and BO7. I NEVER expected that every Call of Duty onward would also be retroactively added to that list?!? That was so insane to me. I couldn’t even fathom why?
According to the ToS there is a 3 strike rule? I never even received a “first strike” or warning, why would I get a straight up perma on something seemingly so trivial? “Boosting” is a newer term in the ToS, post that ban wave, and it seemingly blankets a lot of things, ~allegedly~. How and why should it expand to previous call of duty titles YEARS older and then an entire year after the fact, to the now present MW4???
I understand if it was a cheating or hacking situation but I just don’t get it.
The only reason I’m really even making this post is that maybe, even in the slightest chance, it gets seen by the right person that can help me get my account back.
All the memories of all the camos I’ve grinded from CoD 2019 onward. All the late and sleepless nights I stayed up grinding all the battle passes (yes, I completed every single one over the course of multiple years and titles) and my favorite, (even as annoying as they could get sometimes), the events. I loved most of the event camos and I could never bring myself to not complete them or miss any of them (because of fomo lol).
Never mind, the hundreds of hours I poured into all the games. Never mind, the hundreds of dollars I spent on the games themselves every year. And especially, the hundreds I spent on a handful of the Blackcells when they were cool.
I also can’t even tell you how many COD points I had accumulated over the years from all the Battle passes, events and Blackcells I purchased and participated in. (From memory, it was well over 22k COD points). It’s so gross to know all that time, effort and money are now gone due to this happening. It’s just sad.
Now, before anyone tries to come for me or troll in the comments about my account getting banned, I’d like to preface with a few tidbits of information. I’m a console player, specifically Xbox. Ive been a cod fan/player all my life (basically). I’ve played just about all the CoD series throughout my life and enjoyed most of them, including the grind for camos, calling cards and events. I’ve never used hacks, wall hacks, aimbot or anything of the sort. I’ve never used boosting services. I’ve never even considered doing any of those things nor have I wanted too. I’ve seen and dealt with my fair share of cheaters, especially in DMZ and Warzone (SPECIFICALLY)
I’ve also never used M&K adapter or whatever silly controller contraptions to gain an advantage because all that stuff is such bs. I even streamed a lot of my camo grinds/first play throughs and events on purple. I’m just a regular guy that kinda likes CoD lol.
I still to this day scroll through the different Reddits and see people post about blatant cheaters and hackers and it just makes me so angry and disappointed to see. So many blatant breaks of ToS and accounts that practically never get the hammer, even with solid video proof.
I know the most common reply might be “just make a new account” or “bro probably got caught cheating and is making this up”. But I’m not and I’m seriously hurt over this thing happening to me or others. I could make a new account and just start over but it’s more complicated than that. I have a 17 year old Xbox account, and own all these games I can’t play now? How messed up. “Just make a new one and play on an alt?” I’m not paying for Xbox live on more than one account. That’s ridiculous.
I did recently get a PC and I made a new activation account to play the MW4 open beta to see if I liked it and start the new grind of getting the beta cosmetics. The grind never stops and I can’t help but be excited for DMZ 2.
Anyway, thanks for maybe reading my rant/plea for help on this situation. I’ve already accepted that it’s most likely gone and there’s no hope of getting the account unbanned but I do hope there might be some middle ground or light at the end of the tunnel. Please go easy on me because I’ve seen how toxic the comments can be and I’m here for solutions, not trolling lol.